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FI
Finland (NATO country code) |
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FiA
Fighter Aviation |
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FIBUA
Fighting In Built-Up Areas |
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FIBUATT
FIBUA Training Team |
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FIC
Flight Information / Inspection Centre |
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FICS
Fully Integrated Communications system |
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FID
Foreign Internal Defense (USA) |
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FIDO
Fog Investigation & Dispersal Operation |
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FIFO
First In, First Out |
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FIFV
Future Infantry Fighting Vehicle (USA) |
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FIG
Fighter Interceptor Group |
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FII
Fuerzas de Intervencion Inmediata (Spain) |
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FILA
Fighting Intruders at Low Altitude |
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FIM
Individual aerial intercept guided missile (USA) |
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FIMA
Future International Medium Airlifter |
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FIMS
Ferranti Integrated Mine Countermeasures System |
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FINCO
Field Intelligence NCO |
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FINDER
Flight-Inserted Detection Expendable for Reconnaissance (US Navy) |
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FINDERS
Fast Information Navigation Decision and Reporting System
(Thomson-CSF/Giat) |
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FIO
Field Intelligence Officer |
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FIP
Flight Instruction Program (AFROTC) (USA) |
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FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standard |
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FIR
Finite Impulse Response |
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FIR
Flight Incident Recorder |
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FIR
Flight Information Region |
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FIR
Forza d'Intervento Rapido. Rapid intervention force (Italy) |
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FIR
Fuel Indicator Reading |
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FIR
Fuerza de Intervencion Rapida. Rapid intervention force, planned (Spain) |
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FIR
Functional Item Replacement |
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FIRAMS
Flight Incident Recorder & Aircraft Monitoring System |
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FIRM
Floating Integrated Rail Mount |
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FIRMU
Flight Incident Recorder Memory Unit |
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FIRST
Fast Interactive Radio System Tool |
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FIRST
Fast InfraRed Sniper Tracker |
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FIS
Fuze Interface System |
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FIS
Fighter Interceptor Squadron |
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FIS
Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) |
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FIS
Front Islamique de Salut (Algeria) |
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FIS3
Ferranti Integrated Submarine Sonar Suite (UK) |
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FISC
Flight Instrumentation Signal Converter |
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FISCS
Ferranti Integrated Submarine Combat Suite (UK) |
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FIST
Facility for Infantry Situation Training |
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FIST
Fire Support Team |
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FIST
Fleet Imagery Support Terminal (US Navy) |
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FIST
Future Infantry Soldier Technology (British Army) |
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FIST DMD
Fire Support Team Digital Message Device |
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FISTV
Fire Support Team Vehicle (USA) |
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FITOW
Further Improved TOW (USA) |
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FITS
Falkland Islands Trunk System |
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FITS
FLIR Targeting System |
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FIV
Future Infantry Vehicle (US Army) |
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FIVEATAF
Fifth Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO) |
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FIW
Fighter-Interceptor Wing |
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FJ
Fast Jet |
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FKCU
Frequency & Key Copy Unit |
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FKMS
Frequency & Key Management System |
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FKMU
Frequency & Key Management Unit |
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FL
Flashing Light |
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FL
Flexible |
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FL
Flight Level |
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FL
Florida (US state) |
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FL
foot lambert (illumination) |
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fl oz
fluid ounce (volume) |
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FLA
Future Large Aircraft |
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FLAB
Flag Lieutenant to the Admiralty Board (UK) |
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FLAG
Flemish Aerospace Group (Belgium) |
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FLAG
Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided experiment programme |
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FLAG
Fleet Location & Graphics |
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FLAGE
Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment missile (USA) |
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FLAIR
Field Low Altitude Intermediate-range Radar (France) |
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FLAK
Flugzeugabwehr Kanone. Anti-aircraft gun (Germany) |
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FLAME
Fagot Launcher Adapted to MILAN Equipment.
Anti-tank weapon (India) |
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FLAME
Fighter Launched Advanced Materials Experiment (USA) |
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FLAPS
Fluoresence Aerodynamic Particle Sizer |
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FLAR
Forward Looking Airborne Radar |
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FLASH
Folding Light Acoustic System for Helicopters |
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FLAV
Family of Light Armoured Vehicles |
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FLC
Federal Laboratory Consortium for technology transfer (USA) |
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FLCH
Flechette |
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FLDTW
Field Training Wing |
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FLEA
Frangible Low Energy Ammunition |
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FLET
Forward Line of Enemy Troops |
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FLEXAR
Flexible Adaptive Radar |
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FLF
Fregates La Fayette (France) |
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FLIP
Flight Information Publications |
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FLIP
Floated Inertial Platform |
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FLIP
Floating Instrument Platform |
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FLIR
Forward Looking Infra-Red |
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FLM
Flight-weighted Laser Module |
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FLMTS
Flight Line Maintenance Test Set |
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FLN
Front de Liberation Nationale (Algeria) |
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FLNKS
Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (New Caledonia) |
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FLO/FLO
Float-On / Float-Off |
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FLOPSY
Fleet Operations Programming System |
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FLOT
Forward Line of Own Troops |
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FLPT
Fork Lift Pallet Trailer |
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FLR
Forward Looking Radar |
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FLS
Force Level Simulation |
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FLS
Forward-Looking Sonar |
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Flt
Flight |
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FLT
Fork Lift Truck |
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Flt Lt
Flight Lieutenant |
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FLTBDCST
Fleet Broadcast (US Navy) |
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FLTDECGRULANT
Fleet Deception Group Atlantic.
Now FLTTACREDGRU (US Navy) |
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FLTSAT
Fleet Satellite (USA) |
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FLTSATCOM
Fleet Satellite Communications (USA) |
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FLTTACREDGRU
Fleet Tactical Readiness Group (US Navy) |
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F/LURES
Fast turn-on Litton Urgent Response Electronic Seduction system |
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FM
Fabricaciones Militares (Argentina) |
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Fm
Fermium |
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FM
Field Manual (USA) |
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FM
Field Marshal (British Army) |
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FM
Frequency Modulation |
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FM
Titanium tetrachloride. Chemical warfare smoke mixture |
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FMA
Fabrica Militar de Aviones SA (now Fabrica Argentina de Material
Aerospacial) (Argentina) |
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FMA
Flight Mode Annunciator |
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FMA
Forward Maintenance Area |
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FMB
Forward Mounting Base |
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FMB
Floating Mine Blade |
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FMBT
Future Main Battle Tank |
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FMC
Flexible Machining Cell |
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FMC
Food Machinery Corporation (USA) |
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FMC
Fully Mission-Capable (USAF) |
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FMC
Forward Motion Compensation |
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FMCS
Flight Management Computer System |
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FMCT
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty |
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FMCW
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave |
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FMDS
Flight Model Discharge System |
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FMECA
Failure Mode, Effect & Criticality Analysis |
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FMED
Forward Medical Equipment Depot |
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FMET
Functional Management Engineering Team |
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FMF
Fleet Marine Force |
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FMF
Foreign Military Funding |
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FMFLANT
Fleet Marine Force Atlantic (USA) |
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FMFM
Fleet Marine Forces Manual |
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FMFP
Foreign Military Financing Program (USA) |
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FMG
Fleet Maintenance Group |
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FMGC
Filtre Mixte de Grande Capacite (France) |
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FMGC
Flight Management & Guidance Computer |
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FMI
Fibre Materials Inc (USA) |
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FMI
Functional Management Inspection |
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FMICW
Frequency Modulated Interrupted Continuous Wave |
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FMIS
Field Medical Information System (US Army) |
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FMJ
Full Metal Jacket |
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FMK
Flyvematerielkommandoen (Denmark) |
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FMLN
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (El Salvador) |
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FMO
Federalni Ministerstvo Obrany (Czechoslovakia) |
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FMOP
Frequency Modulation On Pulse |
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FMPAC
Fleet Marine Force Pacific (USAF) |
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FMR
Field Miniature Range |
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FMRAAM
Future Medium-Range AAM |
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FMRO
Fleet Maintenance & Repair Organisation (UK Royal Navy) |
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FMS
Ferranti Modular Sonar |
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FMS
Field-Maintenance Squadron (USAF) |
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FMS
Fire Marking System |
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FMS
Flexible Machining System |
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FMS
Flight Management System |
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FMS
Foreign Military Sales (USA) |
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FMS
Frequency Management System |
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FMSCR
Foreign Military Sales Credit (USA) |
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FMT
Full Mission Trainer |
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FMTAG
Foreign Military Training Affairs Group |
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FMTV
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (US Army) |
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FMU
Feeder Matching Unit. Harmonic filtering |
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FMU
Field Medical Unit |
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FMU
Fleet Maintenance Unit |
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FMV
Forsvarets Materielverk (Sweden) Defence Material Administration |
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FMX
Fire & Manoeuvre Exercise |
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FN
Fabrique Nationale. Small arms manufacturer (Belgium) |
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FNA
Firing Needle Assembly |
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FNA
Future Naval Artillery |
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FNF
Flash Non-Fragmentation |
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FNH
Fuerza Naval Hondurena (Honduras) |
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FNIU
Fibre Network Interface Unit |
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FNLA
National Front for the Liberation of Angola |
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FNMI
FN Manufacturing Inc. (USA) |
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FNMOC
Fleet Meteorology and Oceanographic Center, Monterey, California (US Navy) |
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FNNH
Fabrique Nationale Nouvelle Herstal (Belgium) |
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FNS
Fuerza Naval de El Salvador |
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FNSS
FMC-Nurol Savunma Sanayii (Turkey) |
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FO
Fibre Optics |
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FO
Flag Officer (UK Royal Navy) |
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FO
Follow-On |
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FO
Forward Observer |
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FOA
Field Operating Agency (USAF) |
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FOA
Forsvarets Forskningsalanstalt. National Defence Research Establishment
(Sweden) |
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FOAC
Flag Officer, Aircraft carrier |
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FOAEW
Future Organic Airborne Early Warning (UK Royal Navy) |
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FOAM
Forecasting Ocean Atmospheric Model |
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FOAS
Fleet Operational Analysis Staff |
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FOAS
Future Offensive Aircraft System (UK) |
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FOB
Forward Operating Base |
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FOB
Free-On-Board |
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FOBC
Fibre Optic Bus Components |
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FOBS
Fractional Orbit Bombardment System |
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FOC
Final / Full Operational Capability |
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FOC
First of class (warship) |
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FOC
Foreign Object Check |
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FOCA
Fibre Optic Cable Assembly |
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FOCAS
Fibre Optical Communications for Aerospace Systems (USA) |
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FOCAS
Flag Officer, Carriers & Amphibious Ships (UK) |
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FOCC
Flight Operations Control Center (USA) |
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FOCOS
Foam Overhead Cover Support System |
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FOCS
Flag Officer's Command System (US Navy) |
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FOCSLE
Fleet Operational Command System Life Extension (UK Royal Navy) |
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FOCUS
Food Operational Cellular Unit Source (US Army) |
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FOD
Foreign Object Damage |
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FODADE
Foreign Defence Assistance And Defence Export (Israel) |
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FODL
Fibre-Optic Data Link |
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FODT
Fibre Optics Data Transmission |
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FODU
Fibre Optic Distribution Unit |
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FOF
Force On Force |
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FOF3
Flag Officer 3rd Flotilla (UK Royal Navy) |
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FOFA
Follow-On Forces Attack |
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FofF
Field of Fire |
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FOFLOT
Forward of FLOT |
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FofS
Foreman of Signals (British Army) |
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FOG
Fibre Optics Guidance |
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FOG
Fibre Optics Gyro |
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FOG-M
Fibre Optic Guided Missile |
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FOG-MPM
Fibre Optic Guided Multi-Purpose Missile |
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FOHMD
Fibre-Optic Helmet-Mounted Display |
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FOI
Follow-On Interceptor (USAF) |
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FOI
Freedom of Information |
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FOIDS
Fibre-Optic Intrusion Detection System |
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FOL
Fly-Off Lever |
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FOL
Forward Operating Location |
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FOLD
Forward Observer Laser Designator |
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FOLPEN
Foliage Penetration |
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FOLTA
Forward Operating Location Training Area |
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FOM
Forces d'Outre Mer (France) |
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FOM
Fibre Optic Missile |
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FOMOA
Force Modernization Analyzer (USA) |
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FOMP
Fiber Optic Mortar Projectile (USA) |
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FONA
Flag Officer, Naval Aviation |
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FONAC
Flag Officer, Naval Air Command |
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FOO
Forward Observation Officer |
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FOOB
Fire Out Of Battery |
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FOOT
Follow-On Operational Test |
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FOP
First Off Production |
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FOP
Fleet Operations Programme |
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FOPEN
Foliage Penetration radar |
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FOPS
Falling Object Protective Structure |
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FOPS
First Orbit Penetration System |
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FOR
Family of Operations Rations |
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FORACS
Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy & Check System |
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FORATOM
Forum Atomique Europeen |
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FORSCOM
Forces Command (US Army) |
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FORSCOM
US Army Forces Command |
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FORTAS
Forward Observer Remote Target Acquisition System |
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FORTIS
Forward Observation & Reconnaissance Thermal Imaging System (Switzerland) |
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FORTRAN
Formula Translating system |
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FOSF
Flag Officer, Surface Flotilla |
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FOSIC
Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Centre (US Navy) |
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FOSM
Flag Officer, Submarines |
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FOSNI
Flag Officer, Scotland & Northern Ireland (UK Royal Navy) |
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FOSSN
Follow-On Nuclear Submarine |
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FOST
Flag Officer Sea Training (UK Royal Navy) |
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FOST
Force Oceanique Strategique. Oceanic Strategic Force (France) |
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FOT
Forward Ordnance Team |
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FOT
Frequency Optimum Traffic |
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FOT&E
Follow-On Test & Evaluation |
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FOTARS
Follow-On Tactical Reconnaissance System |
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FOTD
Fiber Optic Towed Decoys (USA) |
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FOTL
Follow-On To Lance |
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FOTR
Follow-On Tactical Reconnaissance |
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FOTS-LH
Fibre Optic Transmission System - Long Haul |
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FOTT
Follow On To TOW |
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FOU
Forward Observation Unit |
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FOURATAF
Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO) |
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FOV
Family Of Vehicles |
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FOV
Field-Of-View |
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FOW
Family Of Weapons |
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FOWW
Follow-On Wild Weasel |
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FP
Fishery Protection |
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FP
Force Package |
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FP
Frangible Projectile |
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FP
Freezing Point |
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FP-IMS
Fixed Point Ion Mobility Spectrometer chemical detector |
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FPA
Focal-Plane Array |
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FPAS
Focal-Plane Array Seeker |
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FPB
Fast Patrol Boat |
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FPC
Fast Pursuit Craft |
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FPD
Flat Panel Displays |
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FPDA
Five Power Defence Agreement (Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore
and the UK) |
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FPE
Fighting Position Excavator |
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FPED
Force Protection Equipment Demonstration |
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FPF
Final Protective Firetask |
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FPF
Fixed Price Firm |
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FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array |
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FPI
Federal Procurement Institute (USA) |
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FPI
Fixed Price Incentive |
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FPIF
Fixed-Price Incentive Fee |
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FPIWA
First-Pass In-Weather Attack |
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FPLM
Mozambique Army |
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FPLX
Force Projection Logistics Exercise |
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fpm
Feet Per Minute |
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FPMU
Fuel Pump Monitoring Unit |
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FPO
Field / Forces Post Office |
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FPP
Fixed-Pitch Propeller |
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FPP
Fleet Planning & Programming |
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FPR
Federal Procurement Regulation (USA) |
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FPR
Flight Profile Recorder |
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FPS
Fast Packet Switch. Network communications |
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FPS
Fishery Protection Squadron (UK Royal Navy) |
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FPS
Forces Postal Service (UK) |
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FPV
Fast Patrol Vessel |
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FQ&P
Flight, Quality & Performance |
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FQIS
Fuel Quantity Indication System |
| FQS
Flight Quality Simulator |
